Artemis Two Launches: First Crewed Moon Mission in 50 Years

0:00It's April 1st, this is entertainment and celebrity news, today AI powered stories from the spotlight. Tonight marks the launch of NASA's Artemis 2 mission, humanity's first trip back to lunar orbit since Apollo 17 more than 50 years ago. The two-hour window kicks off at 11.24pm from Florida, with the massive space launch system rocket boosting the Orion spacecraft and its four astronauts into space. This is NASA's debut crewed flight on both the SLS rocket and Orion capsule. The team includes Commander Reed Weisman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch, and Canadian Colonel Jeremy Hanson, who's the first, from his country on a moon mission. The King sent Hanson a personal note, praising his leadership and stressing responsible space stewardship amid booming commercial exploration. He wished the crew stars aligning in their favor for a safer turn that inspire a sustainability and cooperation. On board the tidarion cabin, the astronauts will test life support, propulsion, navigation,

1:04and power systems while flying thousands of kilometers. Past the moon, the farthest humans have gone. They'll run medical experiments in weightlessness, dodge higher radiation, practice manual piloting, then plunge back through Earth's atmosphere for A, Pacific Splashdown, Artemis. Two paves the way for Artemis III in 2027 to test lunar land or docking, and Artemis IV in 2028 targeting the Moon South Pole for our first landing there since Apollo. Deep space just got a whole lot closer.